- 22:58 08/10/2009
At least 17 people were killed on Thursday by a suicide car bomb attack outside the Indian embassy in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, local officials said.
- 22:15 08/10/2009
A Ukrainian vice premier confirmed on Thursday that the Russian and Ukrainian prime ministers could meet in November on the sidelines of an intergovernmental economic session.
- 22:05 08/10/2009
Internet users want to track the news events that shape public opinion, connect to social networking sites and check the credibility of unknown bloggers, a survey conducted by the SYNC3 consortium says.
- 21:01 08/10/2009
A teenager was killed and another injured when unknown attackers opened fire on a school bus in Israel's north, a police spokesman said on Monday.
- 20:12 08/10/2009
Ukraine may use its right under the current contract with Russian energy giant Gazprom to cut natural gas imports in 2010, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Thursday.
- 20:08 08/10/2009
Customs officers in south Russia's Dagestan have seized 197 kg (about 435 lbs) of heroin from a citizen of Belarus attempting to smuggle the drugs into Russia in his car, a customs service spokesman said on Thursday.
- 19:58 08/10/2009
Nearly one in four people worldwide are Muslim, a U.S. think-tank has said in a report.
- 19:20 08/10/2009
Twenty-six workers were killed in a tin ore mine in south China on Thursday when the brakes on the elevator taking them down a shaft failed, Xinhua news agency reported.
- 19:20 08/10/2009
The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed on Thursday that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit Moscow on October 12-14.
- 17:57 08/10/2009
Russia believes that a new strategic arms reduction deal with the U.S. should be signed before cuts in tactical nuclear weapons are discussed, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
- 17:36 08/10/2009
A powerful earthquake hit the southwest of the Pacific Ocean on Thursday, U.S. media said, citing the U.S. Geological Survey.
- 17:27 08/10/2009
Russia believes direct contacts between North Korea and the United States could provide a breakthrough in multilateral negotiations on ending the North's nuclear program, the Foreign Ministry said.
- 17:22 08/10/2009
Cairo is against the postponement of the signing of a reconciliation pact between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas, the Egyptian foreign minister said on Thursday.
- 17:14 08/10/2009
The Russian government will provide around 5 billion rubles ($170 million) in aid for state-controlled defense industry corporation Oboronprom and titanium producer Vsmpo-Avisma, the prime minister said on Thursday.
- 17:13 08/10/2009
Russian prosecutors confirmed on Thursday that the Arctic Sea cargo vessel, at the centre of a mysterious hijacking case in July, is currently anchored off Gibraltar.
- 16:58 08/10/2009
Ukraine continues shipping arms and military equipment to Georgia, a member of the Ukrainian parliament said on Thursday.
- 16:20 08/10/2009
German writer Herta Mueller has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Thursday.
- 16:01 08/10/2009
Afghan soldiers and U.S. marines seized some 52 tons of drugs and dozens of tons of explosives in Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, an Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman said on Thursday.
- 15:47 08/10/2009
Russian rescue teams have completed their emergency and medical aid missions on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, which was recently hit by a series of powerful earthquakes.
